WORD OF THE DAY 4/30/2003
funereal \fyoo-NIR-ee-uhl\, adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to a funeral.
2. Suiting a funeral; solemn; dark; gloomy; mournful.
But do I have to sound so funereal, so pontifically solemn?
--Anatole Broyard, '(Enter Pound and Eliot),' [1]New York
Times, May 30, 1982
Where earlier the tone was funereal, now it consoles,
uplifts.
--Marguerite Feitlowitz, [2]A Lexicon of Terror
M. M. Graff ... disapproved of these particular trees,
accusing them of being 'a gloomy black-green at best and
made even more funereal by a coating of city soot.'
--Marie Winn, [3]Red-Tails in Love
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Funereal comes from Latin funereus, from funus, funer-, 'a
funeral, a burial.'
1. Of or pertaining to a funeral.
2. Suiting a funeral; solemn; dark; gloomy; mournful.
But do I have to sound so funereal, so pontifically solemn?
--Anatole Broyard, '(Enter Pound and Eliot),' [1]New York
Times, May 30, 1982
Where earlier the tone was funereal, now it consoles,
uplifts.
--Marguerite Feitlowitz, [2]A Lexicon of Terror
M. M. Graff ... disapproved of these particular trees,
accusing them of being 'a gloomy black-green at best and
made even more funereal by a coating of city soot.'
--Marie Winn, [3]Red-Tails in Love
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Funereal comes from Latin funereus, from funus, funer-, 'a
funeral, a burial.'
